Outcome: the beginning of Chapter 6 dedicated to Compound Slates was reviewed and modified based on the modifications proposed by Jasper van BATEN since the previous conference call. One of the main difficulties seems how to explain what is the purpose of Apparent Compound Slates in the representation of a reactive system. While keeping to the usual arrangement of sections used throughout the CAPE-OPEN interface specification documentation, where the design chosen is expressed before the detailed requirements are stated, an effort was made to express high level requirements in order to provide a logical path to the design chosen. Some additional re-wording seems necessary in order to deliver a text which can be quickly understood by any reader (developers, not end-users). Mark STIJNMAN agreed to re-state two existing Use Cases which still make reference to Material Object Delegates. Adding at least one Use Case to express separately the viewpoints of the PME and of a Property Package was decided as well.

Any CO-LaN Member interested in the Thermo SIG activities is welcome to join this Special Interest Group. Contact the co-leaders of the SIG for further information: Sergej BLAGOV at BASF (sergej.blagov@basf.com) and Jasper van BATEN at AmsterCHEM (jasper@amsterchem.com).

CAPE-OPEN Unit Operation socket in SuperPro Designer®

Advanced Process Engineering Co-Simulator (APECS)

Model-centric process engineering

DyOS is a software tool for the solution of dynamic optimization problems.DyOS allows the model to be accessed via a so-called Equation Set Object (ESO) interface, a standard developed in the CAPE-OPEN project.

CAPE-OPEN at TOTAL

Use of CAPE-OPEN at BP as of 2008

Air Liquide use of CAPE-OPEN

This report, made at the CAPE-OPEN 2008 European Conference, covers actions related to CAPE-OPEN between 2004 and 2008. Air Liquide has been leveraging on CAPE-OPEN to streamline the process of developing and distributing thermodynamic expertise within its engineering functions.

CAPE-OPEN Property Package for ChemSep

CAPE-OPEN Unit Operation socket in UniSim Design

Honeywell Process Solutions was awarded funding within the Consultancy Services scheme. Outcome of this action was reported by Martin ROSS, UniSim Product Manager, at the CAPE-OPEN 2014 Annual Meeting, held on September 10-11, 2014 in Mörfelden, Germany.

Consultancy Services: how does it work?

The purpose of the Consultancy Services scheme is to provide assistance, in the form of access to a specialist consultant and funding, in the new implementation of CAPE-OPEN interfaces or the improvement of existing interface implementations. Look out for the next round of service requests and apply.

Dynamic simulation and numerical analysis tool

The simulation environment Diana (Dynamic simulation and numerical analysis tool) performs the numerical analysis of problems such as the ones usually found in process engineering.

One of the main aspects of Diana is that it relies on the CAPE-OPEN Numerical interfaces. The models handled by the solvers within the numerical kernel of Diana, or plugged in Diana, are object-oriented models based on the CAPE-OPEN Equation Set Object (ESO) concept.